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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:03:26 +0300
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include netdb.h resolv.h src/lib/libc/include reentrant.h src/lib/libc/net getaddrinfo.3 getaddrinfo.c gethostbydns.c gethostbyname.3 gethostbynis.c getipnodebyname.3 herror.c name6.c res_init.c res_send.c res_send_private.h ...
Message-ID:  <20040225220326.GA18680@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200402252103.i1PL3kkh030016@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200402252103.i1PL3kkh030016@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:03:46PM -0800, Brian Feldman wrote:
>   Make the resolver(3) and many associated interfaces much more reentrant.
>   The getaddrinfo(3), getipnodebyname(3) and resolver(3) can coincide now
>   with what should be totally reentrant, and h_errno values will now
>   be preserved correctly, but this does not affect interfaces such as
>   gethostbyname(3) which are still mostly non-reentrant.

Is there any chances to implement gethostbyname_r(3) (like in Solaris)? It 
will be very useful for milters, they often want it.

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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